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For anyone interested, there’s another part of the Starlink besides the satellites and your dish - ground stations (gateways) [].

These are the large clusters of antennas that communicate with the satellites and connect the Starlink network to the Internet on Earth. Looks like one of these was set on fire.

https://starlink.com/support/article/45d1d256-171e-0f67-4895...

Re:Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:48AM (#49727015)
Would be very glad if anyone explained to me if and why this is revolutionary.
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Friday September 11, 2026 @04:58AM (#49655402)
I was just recently thinking about how we have built a lot of abstractions that makes it easier for a human to do useful stuff but they usually come with their own set of trade-offs.

And now in the LLM era, there's is less and less justification for using those very high level abstractions, and we'll see many of them die out in the upcoming years. React (native or not) is not exception.

Re:The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:12AM (#49434506)
Vibe ROI-ing
Re:Gemini 3.7 Flash on Thursday August 13, 2026 @01:31PM (#49289246)
Is that he model that supposed to be Pro, but then they changed their mind?
As others mentioned retyping is not fun. My approach is to let it write the code, but only in small portion. Not "implement this feature". But "open this file and make these changes". Each small change is easily reviewable and often times I end up asking it about better options and iterate a bit. Still feels like I'm in charge. Still feels like I'm learning stuff.
Re:Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @11:27AM (#48993554)
The benchmarks are not particularly impressive. I suppose they needed to release something since the long pause. But not clear why would I use it now.
Re:Elevated error rate across multiple models on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @10:35AM (#48645627)
I suppose it's a good time to encourage people trying out pi[1] with any cheap model from the openrouter rankings page[1].

[1] https://pi.dev/ [2] https://openrouter.ai/rankings

Re:The Coming Loop on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @10:32AM (#48645585)
Two problems: I will not get my pleasure, and I will still not know how the code works.
Re:Elevated error rate across multiple models on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @10:30AM (#48645554)
Are you implying using their brains?
Re:The Coming Loop on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @08:55AM (#48644251)
I keep thinking about at which point I should not force myself into the loop. As a developer I really like working on the code structure, making it clearer, thinking about good abstraction, breaking into modules, etc. I really take pleasure in it. At the same time I understand that at some point I am becoming the limiting factor.

If the point of the software is benefit people, should I still care about how the code looks.

Right now, I still think that the answer is yes, but in 3 years? in 10 years?

Re:Midjourney Medical on Thursday June 18, 2026 @04:11AM (#48582334)
I can only applaud. Regardless of whether this device is possible, or economically viable, this is a brave move and a bold vision. Taking bigger risks is what what makes the advances possible.
Exactly. It was looking as though Apple understood this. But now they gave in and called it Siri AI.
Re:GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:04AM (#48567275)
Exactly this. You can't have a competitive industry while at the same time heavily redistributing wealth to the point where people don't have any incentives at all.
Re:GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:00AM (#48567247)
> A total of €13.5 million has been allocated to the project.

This is not even funny. If you want a competitive AI industry, you need to invest much more heavily in infrastructure first, building models second.

Re:SpaceX Is Buying Cursor on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @08:48AM (#48554402)
Those Mars bases are getting closer and closer.
Never did. Having been using Github Copilot since its launch (as autocomplete, they have a Vim plugin) and claude code for agentic coding.
$60b is crazy.

Cursor is an extension for VS Code, a harness and a bunch of prompts.

They have their own model (Composer 2) which is based Kimi K2.5, but I don't think SpaceX would be interested in it.

If they need a harness for grok, they could fork PI.

What are they after for here? Customer base? Talent?

Re:UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s on Monday June 15, 2026 @05:29AM (#48538791)
I grown up in the 1990s, so as a teen I had access to the wild west of the decentralized internet in all its scary glory. It was pretty cool.

But nowadays as a parent I see, instagram, tiktok are much more scarier for the damage they make psychologically and mentally to our kids. And with the AI slop it's only going to go downhill. So yes, it's a great decision, and other countries should follow the lead.

well that was fast
I was wondering how does Anthropic and likes keep competitive when Opus is ($5 / $25) 5x times more expensive compared to Kimi K2.6 ($0.7 / $3.4) or other Chinese models, while being only marginally better.

My theory is that US enterprise just can't send data to Chinese and that's understandable, but is that "the moat"?

Re:If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @03:43AM (#48472871)
It seems that Anthropic is winning the competition with OpenAI. But, supposedly, OpenAI is sitting on a similar model, it might be their chance to win back some users by releasing a less-nerfed model, and market it specifically from that point of view.
Re:Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @03:26AM (#48472736)
I mean even I know who Sutton is [1]. He is one of the reinforcement learning pioneers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S._Sutton

Re:VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare on Thursday June 04, 2026 @09:30AM (#48398387)
Congratulations to the team! I hope Evan and others got fabulously rich, they deserve it!
Re:Expanding Project Glasswing on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @10:18AM (#48370623)
Is there any evidence Mythos is qualitatively better than the Opus 4.x?

I'm afraid that the usual mantra that "we just need more scale" that worked well for attracting investments, is not working anymore - bigger models provide marginal improvements while naturally get much more expensive to run.

Is this why both Anthropic and OpenAI are rushing for IPOs this year?

Re:Please Use AI on Friday May 29, 2026 @11:05AM (#48324020)
Exactly. I have children too you know. In fact we had a blast last time with my five year old shouting nonsense at Suno and having it make some cool songs out of it. Does it make me less human? It’s all about how you choose to use the technology
Re:Please Use AI on Friday May 29, 2026 @11:04AM (#48323998)
Right, but why attacking AI specifically? I just don’t buy the example, she could use a book with recepies instead of calling her friend, right? Maybe she just doesn’t want to call her friend this time, you know, and maybe it doesn’t make her less human.
Re:Please Use AI on Friday May 29, 2026 @10:45AM (#48323744)
Be sure to use a mobile phone when making your next, I don’t know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not come in person to your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals

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